What should I do when my professors push Christianity onto the students?

Question

I attend a small liberal arts college in South Carolina. I am an Education major and have noticed that most of the Professors go to church and they talk about religion in the classroom constantly. They assume that all education majors attend church and they make comments about how they like to see the Ten Commandments hung up in a school. I feel that this is ridiculous. I was taking a course on the child, families, and communities and all the professor and the other students talked about was religion (Christianity) and how they can judge a school when they first walk in it. Some even suggested that Title I schools were "bad" schools and anything above that was a "good" school. I feel very strongly about this but was afraid to speak up for fear of being ostracized. What do I do? They are warping the minds of future teachers.

It is a public school.

I am a senior. I wish I would have went to another University. I am so tired of the closed minded people here. Any suggestions for a Grad School?

I was born here into a poor family. What does a girl have to do to get away?

Answer 1

Discuss this with your counselor. Then if you don't get a satisfactory answer, you might consider talking to the Dean of Students. However, living in the Bible Belt you have to realize this is going to be a difficult problem to correct.

Answer 2

Transfer!!!!!!!!!! The South is a little bit wacky and fanatical when it comes to this kind of thing. For many Religion is the end all to everything. For others, a good solid education is what is needed. The separation of Church and a Basic Education is what is needed in many cases. People lack common sense and some people are too pg headed and judgmental to see that.

I would transfer elsewhere or ride out the rest of that schooling frustrated. You can also address how you feel that they are betraying the mission of Education and talk about the lost time being spent on Education. It is important for cults or other institutions to indoctrinate new membership, too bad this comes at the expense of a $30k a year education, now that is selfish!

Answer 3

Tell them you are a committed follower of The Invisible Pink Unicorn ..... (look this up on Wikipedia if you don't already know about her), and the resulting discussion should be lively, at least.

Answer 4

Is it a public or private school?
If it's private, then there is nothing you can do about it.
If it's public, then you can talk to the dean about it.

A liberal arts college incorporating religion?? Ok.

Answer 5

Let them know they aren't legally allowed to push the students to Christianity as the students may not want to be involved with it so therefore they are commiting blackmail I think :)

Answer 6

My seriuos advice to you is " you should read literature of Swami Vivekananda."